stray dogs a line. in broadcasting live direct from our studios in central moscow this is r t glad to have you with us let's take a look at your top stories a global outcry against corporate greed has risen up in almost a thousand cities worldwide people have taken their anger to the streets saying their governments have been taken over by big business the occupy wall street movement began in new york and then quickly spreading across the u.s. to los angeles denver and washington among others it has since gone global with asia joining in the demands for change in europe to hundreds of cities are taking part in the protests there we will be hearing from our correspondents around the world but first we're going back to new york and times square where a huge police presence including anti-terrorism units have been deployed as almost

new year's eve size crowds have gathered to seek a fall off has the story for our t.v. . well we're here in times square on forty six street on seventh avenue this was the scene of a massive standoff between the occupy wall street protesters who had marched down here to join up with the march much larger massive rally down the forty second street that i was part of the this group that marched from washington square park for several hundred of us if not more than a thousand we were told to turn turn down forty six street and once we did several of us that think that's what the rally why the new york city police department were preventing moving left or right or simply for a one position for several hours they had barricaded the area they had called out all kinds of police units here they were riot police police officers on that mounted forces there were several family offs between protesters and police i saw several protesters sitting peacefully on the grounds of the n.y.p.d.

officers took them a couple of them pushed them down onto the ground face down very violently and dragged him away and having back and now we are hearing reports of a total of about seventy protesters arrested here today on the scene of the nationwide international in fact occupy wall street protest now things have calmed down since but it was quite tense standoff between police and protesters at one point they were saying if you don't leave you will risk arrest of course there is no place to leave because they corralled off the section at one point we saw protesters receiving the first amendments to the police officers here still very tense situation the police had essentially pushed many people aside into one corner were prevented from moving any place and couldn't join with a larger march it's unclear why the police department responded so aggressively to what essentially has been a continuation of peaceful protests here but we'll continue to cover this for you or to smyrna port was also among the journalists covering the rally and she told us

what pushed the situation to turn violent. what sparked the tension was probably the fact that the n.y.p.d. the new york city police department was overwhelmed with the unprecedented amount of people that turned out in support of this occupy movement i don't think even journalists were prepared for a crowd this large the sidewalks were packed everybody standing shoulder to shoulder there were also helicopters flying in the air overhead above the crowd this was a crowd that while i was there was protesting peacefully there were police officers telling some protesters if you leave now you won't get hurt one journalist had his press pass confiscated by the police officers because he for failing to remain on the sidewalk we did see some paddy wagons come in we did see some riot police before the environment got as tense as it has i did get an opportunity to

speak with many people in the crowd and i think they're going to very powerful message. i think it sends a message that is going to continue that people are just going to keep joining and it's going to keep building until we can come to some constructing constructive working solution it's time and time for people to get with me what we need what we . want the government without our money without our hard earned money there is no country there is no government because we work and we give it back it's not quite clear why the amount of police officers and counterterrorism units have turned out in times square and are trying to break apart this demonstration but what is clear is that these activists remain while i was there to stand their ground and hopefully this will all end in a nonviolent way but of course the amount of police presence that is turning out in times square is clearly creating

a very tense environment. miniport reporting for us there in new york and earlier we spoke with the tall who is a sociology professor at brooklyn college in new york he's also taken part in the demonstrations and says the protesters are becoming more coordinated. well i think we have to think about this as a broad movement rather than a particular action or particular organization and i think we are seeing some more specific demands come out of particular actions here in new york city this week there were some specific demands put forward by some of the demonstrations including continuing attacks on millionaires and i think in many ways the u.s. is kind of late to the game that we've seen these demonstrations against austerity against corruption against concentrated economic and political power around the world and so what's important is not so much the specific demands but the fact that there is a now a connected and coordinated global movement that's calling attention to what i

think is pretty transparent to everyone which is a kind of corrupt relationship between economic and political elites around world of course we'll keep you updated on the events in new york but now over to europe here is a round up from our correspondents keeping on top of things there. well people are shelling out slowly no sign of tiredness or so i would say a couple thousand camped out here in the central square of madrid and put themselves and is here is it as we have said before it looks like a power wall street movement has inspired thousands of people across the globe well there are some who believe that it all started right here in madrid in the middle of may one thousand the people have gathered to protest against the government's austerity measures because as you may have heard spain is going through some incredibly hard financial times and they have been protesting for the last several months on then often that they have kept out here in the square forced out for a month and a house just the summer and these people here believe that they're actually making

a change in their voices are being heard let's hear the well let's have a listen to what those activists from the fifteen m. movement had to say about their cause. of cause global utopia isn't possible changes take time but we want those who are at the top on the stand the common people who want change and how much we want it. but it was not the spirit i was job with several months ago many of my friends are out of work in the situation is rather difficult if you do nothing nothing will change but i thought if that was and we want to transport and horizontal society we saw the arab spring then the spanish summer the american autumn and now will face a global winter a look like quite a have to goal for these people here but you have to understand for them it's not just a matter of corporate domination for them it's a matter literally off surviving a lot of them have invested money and time into education we're talking about people who are twenty four to thirty five years old they're basically the these are

the people who should be moving forward but they cannot afford not to stay they cannot get a job and therefore they cannot afford to get homes they cannot afford to start families so for them really it's a very significant issue so they are determined to make their voices heard and of course. they're at their concerns are being was told over europe and are to have correspondents in other cities as well let's get now the latest from mark respond is daniel bushell and ivor bettis koren brussels and want and they will bring us the latest of what's happening in european countries crowds that despite the cold is getting bigger and it's getting angrier sheltering slogans against the banks and the governments which keep restoring them with public money all solti's first tried to ban this grouping saying there was no running water for them which many stores an excuse to stop them getting together but they have finally given in to the weight of numbers and they now plan an all noise alternative callable what they're

calling which is full the people in the interests of the people not the financial elites now the latest scandal is a big big sea of one of buildings largest lenders which are has been bailed out just now by the government to the tune estimated over costing five thousand euros per taxpayer along saw it the c.e.o. of that bank being promised for last year a bonus of six hundred thousand euros in practice for practically leading the bank to the brink of collapse no the people have also been short by the e.u.'s reaction when it was all about the significance of the protests to spokesperson for the european commission just also what does it mean to us. the e.u. employment commission adjust the protests protests to should go to frankfurt instead of brussels frankfurt being the home of the european central bank central to this euro crisis at the moment international movement people are coming here from all across europe people of actually more just for months buy food for example

from the likes of spain to get here seeing brussels really as the hosts of the e.u. and the problem here. for the last part the protests today have been very peaceful but the atmosphere here is just suddenly the last moments that a law. more tense that's because the police which are in still in vast numbers here and you can see the line of police vans behind me the protesters the gathered behind there the police have been trying to disperse the last few remaining hundred hardcore protesters from the steps in front of the cathedral they say they're trying to disperse and peacefully they set up a cordon around them they're not letting anyone into that cordon but they want to keep and to leave but they did as they started to disperse those people on the on the paving the protesters they didn't want to move they say they have a right to remain on the on the sidewalk there and to carry out their protest peacefully. when they didn't move the. actions did escalate there was a lot of pushing and shoving arrests were made i think in see some of those

pictures now a lot of shouting police have brought out dogs as well and and as the crowd chanted shame on you to the police. there the temp of the atmosphere got a lot a lot more tense now not quite sure is going to happen now because the what the police want to do is disperse these protests because they say this is private property they have no right to remain here now as for the protesters earlier today there were reports of almost three thousand people being present there certainly well over a thousand talking to them in terms of. an end goal is there kind of that's a little bit disorganized but talking to these you realize that's not really the point the point of why they're here today is is because it's just to register their anger and that's really was galvanizing all of the anger that their money taxpayers' money is continuing to be spent on bailing out banks they're angry that the people in charge of those banks are still getting bonuses and they see that as the architects of the economic disaster as it as being rewarded and also just generally angry at the way the country's being run and the phrases being

continuously used today in terms of a slogan for today's action is we are the ninety nine percent they say they are there they make up the vast majority of this country they have no control of how the country being run today they say this is their chance to strike back and is. some of them had to say oh good sleeping approaches to sleeping bags so you know there was i can secure food that first day the longest days possible the slogan that began on wall street we are the ninety nine percent echoes in britain as well because we know that the bankers and the bosses are getting bailed out by the government and we're being forced to pay the price for speaking to people is really amazing that you can really get a sense that they think they are really beginning to have a say here and then something will really change down to the really digging in their heels of people with those tents they're setting up camp here there where they might not be or spend the night here but they're prepared to go somewhere else

because they really think this is the start of something they could change something similar to the occupy wall street house if heard from marine corps no new york and they're prepared to stay for as long as it takes until they have their voice heard. artie's ivor bennett daniel bushell and even a running out of coverage in europe on the occupy movement now rome also witnessed occupy wall street movement protests during the turning violent as tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the italian capital venting their fury against corporate greed demonstrators smashed shop windows and torched cars before being dispersed by police using tear gas and water cannons plumes of smoke were seen billowing it near the coliseum and other parts of the city as well some museums were also forced to close down and at least one theater canceled the show riccio tauriel to a journalist and presenter says a more radical element has hijacked the protest. there were two demonstration or

one huge demonstration or one hundred thousand people it was exactly the same like in my three to the indignados people with no future but educated people with a. university degree with no open no chance and that was the majority of the people then there was another demonstration that five on the so-called black blocks they were in the beginning of the demonstration and they started to attack police and police reacted very mildly because they used to. know really maybe water cannons the knights the but they're usually the reaction of the police was a very. calm not that not exaggerated. and taking a look now at other protests worldwide as we see how far the demonstrations have spread protesters have gathered in berlin sparking clashes between police and

demonstrators there after they tried to break through security barriers surrounding the parliament in athens thousands rallied outside the parliament raging against of the bankers financier's and politicians that have a accuse of ruining their economy and condemning millions to poverty people have also taken to the streets in tokyo protesting against big business and income inequality as well as expressing anger at nuclear power companies and to taiwan's capital taipei also played host to an occupy movement many rallied outside the city's financial tower which they view as a symbol of corporate excess. the echoes of the global movement have also been heard in the middle east policy here is in israel and witness to the demonstrations in tel aviv. hundreds of people it was a gathering here in tel aviv where many of the faces are familiar as the organizers of the social protest movement that has been taking place across this country for several months now have given a full weight and backing to this global movement in fact as you can see there

hundreds of people here they've mobilized themselves once again on line at the moment they're holding small discussion groups talking about issues such as tackling poverty being part of this international movement when you talk to people here they say that while it's a pity that they're not really actively participating in these wall street protests they certainly support them and the protests and the demonstrations here in israel will continue to grow until the government meets their demands i think that we need to continue and have some demonstration is the big event like this one or a smaller event but we need to keep in the mind of the people to know that we still don't have any solution we still don't have anything from the government that's a specific purpose aleutian for the situation we we are only into it the slogan occupy wall street here in israel has been translated into occupied child boulevard rothschild boulevard being the street where for nearly three months protesters pitched tents in defiance against this country's socio economic policies earlier

this month those tents did come down after an extensive court battle between a television municipality and the demonstrators society here in israel we're witnessing people very much part of this global movement you need to remember that the last few months have seen the largest demonstrations in this country's sixty three year old history with nearly a million people taking to the streets policia r.t. television. and of course you can keep up to date minute by minute with our correspondents covering the protests on their twitter feeds this is the latest from . lives tweet from new york there she is reporting on what's happening on the ground including how the crowd is it being kettle over behind railings with the police wind stretching for several hundred feet and one officer even telling the crowd that if they don't clear the area that someone. going to get her. on to other news this hour with over three thousand people killed in syria since anti regime demonstrations began seven months ago the un rights chief has it warned

that the country is heading for a full blown civil war the unrest is showing no sign of waning as people in the capital are calling for dialogue while other parts of the country demanding the end of president assad's rule are. filed this report for us from the syrian capital damascus. well here in the center of the syrian capital it is very quiet today it's a day off for most people but of course beneath that calmness the conflict in the country goes on between the government and its supporters and the opposition now what it one thing is clear though when we try to approach people here and bring up the issue of the caustic it almost always turns into a heated debate a very emotional discussion depending on the stand that they take that she meets i see. not all positions we don't know who they are yet syria is under attack but we will not give up. i was the opposition comes down be rational and go into dialogue with the regime i was the government will accept opposition and be more

open minded. but again we are going to mask the opinion we hear most here is that people are asking who is the opposition who is causing this instability and many of them bring up the words armed gangs do you think that these are just people who want to destabilize the country of course this is a position that the government had taken from the very beginning of the conflict but it is a different story when you go outside of the capital we went to the city of understand it was a side of five days of fighting between security forces and anti-government protesters and we felt the tension there there were still a lot of armed forces according to of course again the government they said that they were fighting against armed groups who were trying to create trouble for the local sara but according to some activists they are saying that these are not armed groups of these were peaceful protesters as well as army defectors with a strong army defecting defector contingent in the west on it's very difficult to verify the exactly what happened in the city because people are very hesitant to talk i guess there is still a lot of military the army still in that city of but that is what's happening on

the ground it's not very clear it's hard to get the truth on each matter but on the political level though president bashar al assad has said that he will set up a constitutional committee within the next couple of days to debate with the opposition various sides of the opposition. constitutional reform. the dialogue should have a program and a timeline we must clearly understand what kind of results we want to achieve now one of the sticking points of the constitutional reforms is article eight which states that the ruling baath party is the leader of the state and the opposition says that this no matter even if a multi-party system is introduced without repealing this article it won't change anything but again that depends on the dialogue that both sides are going to have to take and both sides pro and anti government says sides always say at the end of the day it's not what is said it's this is sarah the both sides in doing what they say they will do so it's down to the action in the next few months. earlier

reporting for us there now more stories eye catching video blogs and analysis all there twenty four seven at r.t. dot com here's just some of what's online for you right now. moscow's preparing a response to washington's planned missile defense system in europe which it sees as a threat to national security. and find out why one of the coldest and most inhospitable places in europe now extends a warm welcome to hundreds of immigrants from around the world that's all along that r t v dot com. in preparation for next year's euro two thousand and twelve football tournament ukraine is cleaning up and that includes clearing the streets of stray dogs locals say in some cases the animals are not being properly euthanized and are burned alive just a warning for you you may find some of the images and alexi report disturbing. president michel platini was all smiles while inspecting cleaves new stadium the

ground of the euro twenty twelve football championships final match but a box of a much smaller size has been delighting the authorities in will rule ukraine several months ago local t.v. in the town of jones capital reported a purchase over twenty thousand dollar mobile crematorium for destroying biological waste namely the dispensing of dead stray animals. we put this crime a tory among wheels and are now able to cull the large areas including neighboring towns we had many objections but they all come to nothing in our fight against bites from stray dogs and the spread of infection tens of thousands of stray animals roaming the streets of ukraine cities in this a chance alone hundreds of residents are bitten by dogs every year the town's authorities planned to first shoot the animals dead and then destroy their bodies in the morgue. but in reality it turned into gruesome killings sparking outrage

among the animal protection societies. the locals believe that the dogs are still alive but we don't have any evidence of what poison is used to kill them so we cannot say for sure the only official way of regulating the number of these animals is to sterilize rather than to kill them but we won't stop demanding this happens in europe it proved efficient over the past few decades stray animals practically disappeared their. the animal lovers outcry had a massive response on the internet and online petition was signed by almost two hundred thousand people some of them suggesting you are twenty twelve should not be held in a country that is so cool to its creatures. the demand to cancel your two thousand and twelve is not unexpected as a rule letters from citizens don't work back in two thousand and ten animal defenders addressed officials of mr platini who then as deputy prime minister kalashnikov to stop this outrage against animals it's been a year and we haven't seen any results so far and it has been

a sustained campaign at getting you a force chief to use his influence to stop this cruelty animal rights groups have been staging loud but small protests against cruelty for three years but the multiplying number of those signing the petition now would alarm european football's governing body at first there had been strong doubts about ukraine's ability to host the championship some had even suggested it be moved elsewhere now with all the new stadiums in airports springing up it seems there is no going back even with all the calls to deprive ukraine of the tournament but animal rights activists say they will continue putting pressure on the authorities both in kiev and at you to have their voice heard. and look serious ascii art see reporting from kiev in ukraine. now for a look at some other headlines in brief from around the world. but actually there is from the world's twenty richest nations met in paris to try and find

a solution to the world's financial woes the delegates pledged to siphon cash into the i.m.f. to ensure it was able to bolster the flagging economies of the euro zone's most unstable countries the u.s. opposes the fund coughing up more money as it has already made about a third of the cost of bailing out struggling nations france's finance minister called for decisive measures to tackle the eurozone debt crisis. meanwhile fighting continues in libya as the affairs lengthy battle for the city of syria drags on several people were also injured when gunfire broke out in tripoli on saturday for the first time since being taken by the national transitional council witnesses say the shooting began when a man was seen raising the green flag of khadafi regime on a rooftop the new government is still facing pockets of resistance across the country. at least twelve demonstrators have been killed and dozens injured in violent protests across the yemeni capital sanaa security forces are reportedly

used to live rounds of tear gas and water cannons in the city center president saleh has been battling street demonstrations for months resisting sustained international calls for him to stand down. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei lashed out at the united states for accusations that the iranian government was involved in an international assassination plot in an address to supporters that the leader labeled american allegations a conspiracy against iran designed to isolate the country u.s. president barack obama says the plot to kill saudi arabia's ambassador to washington is an example of the iranian government's pattern of dangerous and reckless behavior. that wraps up our news this hour i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments with our two. six

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the and. in broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is our duty glad to have you with us top story huge crowds in new york are involved in a standoff amid a huge deployment of police in times square at least seventy people are reportedly arrested after scuffles broke out with police this comes as the occupy movement goes global with almost one thousand cities across the world witnessing an unprecedented outpouring of public anger against corporate greed and financial mismanagement. and in other news that syria could be on the verge of a civil war with many in damascus backing president assad. continues to grow outside the capital.